CEO Jim Farley explained his intent behind driving the Xiaomi SU7 EV over the past six months in a post on social media on Wednesday. Farley responds: “I try to drive everything we compete against,” Farley said in a post on social media platform X.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has been driving an electric car from China for six months and is delighted with it, as he revealed in an interview. Specifically, it's about the Xiaomi SU7.

If you had to guess what the chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company used as his daily driver ... well, no matter what you might think, you'd probably be wrong. As it turns out, Ford CEO Jim Farley has been driving around in a Chinese-made Xiaomi SU7 as of late for a little competitive research — and he sure does love it.